I love trees

How many of you offer tree services? I was thinking of buying a bucket truck to do trees, but there so durn expensive, even with using it for holiday lights. Not to mention you can't always use a bucket, and I'm too fat (and scared) to climb. And i don't like calling in a tree company, because all the "decent" ones (by that i mean knowledgeable, and *gasp* insured) also do landscaping and the what not. Should i hire a climber? but if s/he ever quits, i hope i don't have any tree jobs coming up, and if they are half-way intelligent, they will realize that they have me over a barrel. Hmm, so what do you all do?

hmmm something to think about! Do you have one? do you know how much they run? so you are an arborist w/o climbing. do you just pass on the bigger jobs or what? I seriously love trees, and cringe when i see Mt. Saint mulchins and the omnipresent chain wrapped around a 1.5 cal tree and four stakes. I'm saving me pennies for a telescoping gas pole saw, but i have yet to talk to my insurance agent on that. I'm sure they don't offer just "light-duty" tree care coverage, and it would take ALOT of tree pruning to tree insurance.
Thanks for the info!
P.S. whats your fav. tree?

Unless you are big in the business, the investment and insurance is not cost effective. Use what you can rent for jobs that stay in the realm of landscaping and make a friend in the tree business for ones that no sane man would touch Just the way I do it and the kid that I reccomend to my clients is a phenomenonal worker. Best I've ever seen so I could not compete with him anyway.

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